A Tiny Beetle Is Destroying Entire Forests

The mountain pine beetle is sweeping through the Rocky Mountains toward Canada's Boreal Forest, killing hundreds of thousands of pine trees along the way. Journey to the front line of the fight against pine beetles, where workers burn thousands of infected trees in Alberta, Canada, to halt the insects' destructive spread.

A Tiny Beetle Is Destroying Entire Forests

The mountain pine beetle is sweeping through the Rocky Mountains toward Canada's Boreal Forest, killing hundreds of thousands of pine trees along the way. Journey to the front line of the fight against pine beetles, where workers burn thousands of infected trees in Alberta, Canada, to halt the insects' destructive spread.